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Cataloging with RDA

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Goodbye AACR2 and hello RDA. The test results are in, three national libraries (LC, NLM and NLA) plan to implement the new standard "no sooner than January 2013." This workshop will bring you the latest news on RDA and give you a thorough overview of the new content standard. Topics include: FRBR review; RDA Core elements for description, preferred titles and names; changes from AACR2; articulating relationships between resources and entities; RDA Toolkit functionality; using workflows and mappings to catalog materials with RDA. Through exercises and hands-on cataloging experiences, participants will receive a thorough grounding in RDA.

Learning Objectives

Distinguish between work, expression, manifestation and item as they apply to describing and providing access to resources and understand their roles in enabling users to find, identify, select and obtain resources

Build descriptions of resources using RDA Core elements

Create authorized access points using preferred names for persons, families and corporate bodies and preferred titles for works

Articulate relationships between works, expressions, manifestations and items and between resources and persons, families and corporate bodies using RDA vocabularies

Use the RDA Toolkit and workflows to identify rules relevant to describing resources and creating access points

Target Audience
Library catalogers with experience in cataloging with AACR2 and MARC

Prerequisites

Working knowledge of AACR2 and experience applying rules to cataloging situations